Benjamin Golub’s blog

This morning I built a mobile RSSmeme using the RSSmeme API.  It is only 50 lines of templates and code in order to generate this page.  It is simply a mobile representation of the RSSmeme front page.  See how easy it is to work with the API?

Here’s the code:

import urllib2
from django.core.cache import cache
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext
from django.utils import simplejson

CACHE_TIME = 60 * 5

def home(request):
    URL = 'http://www.rssmeme.com/?output=json&language=en'
    key = URL
    json = cache.get(key)
    if not json:
        json = simplejson.load(urllib2.urlopen(URL))
        cache.set(key, json, CACHE_TIME)
    return render_to_response('base.html', {'entries': json['entries']}, context_instance = RequestContext(request))

And base.html is just a simple template.  There’s nothing to it!

Tags: api, mobile, rssmeme

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